MS Pride présentations

Posted on September 11, 2012 by admin

Bonjour, je m’appelle Dylan Theriault-Harris et cette année, je suis responsable de la communication au Middle School Pride. Le Middle School Pride est un comité qui se réunit chaque mercredi à 7h30. Nous discutons et planifions des activités pour les 7e et 8e.

Premièrement, je veux créer une meilleure communication entre les étudiants et les représentants du Middle School Pride. J’atteindrai mon but en créant des enquêtes, des annonces et un forum public.

Secondly, I would like to organize lunchtime activities such as dodgeball, basketball and soccer. These activities could take place either in the Junior Gym, the Velan Gym or outside. In conclusion, I want to help make your year memorable. If you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy to contact me by email ([email protected]) or approach me in the halls. — Dylan Theriault-Harris ’16

YPI – Share the Warmth

Posted on August 30, 2012 by admin

What does it feel like to help others? That was a question that our advisory, Harper 10, knew the answer to, but never actually understood until the day we went to Share the Warmth. It was there that we really began to feel good about ourselves. We knew that we were making a significant difference in other peoples lives, whether it was carrying boxes, tidying up a room, helping in a second hand store, or doing something as simple as mopping a floor.

For the two hours we were at Share the Warmth, we always had something to do. The staff even thanked us, saying that we had really helped them do things that they had kept putting off because they had other jobs to do first. We were able to see the people who went to Share the Warmth and how grateful they were. Performing community service at Share the Warmth has certainly made us aware that not everyone is as well off as we are and how we should help them as much as we can. – Adrien Perlinger ’14

Hockey de Rue

Posted on May 28, 2012 by admin

On the Victoria Day weekend, a group of LCC students put a team together for a ball hockey tournament called Hockey de Rue. The Montreal Canadiens sponsored it and the money raised went to the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation.

We competed against Loyola, Selwyn House, Kuper Academy and many more schools. Our team got off to a slow start by tying our first two games. We won our last and final round-robin game and we placed 8^th in the playoff rankings, which meant we had to play the 1^st place team.

We pulled off the upset and moved on to the semi-finals. We won a tight game against MNP and met Kuper in the final. We went down by two goals early in the game but with the competitive drive of our team, we managed to tie up the game. At the end of the 3^rd period the game was tied 4-4. We went into overtime thanks to the outstanding goaltending of Jordan Itzkovitz ’13. Five minutes into overtime, Nathanael Niedermann ’12 scored to win the game for us!

After a beautiful day of ball hockey, we were awarded the trophy for winning the tournament and another trophy for raising the most money. Our team raised a total of $11, 219!—Giordano Saputo ’13

Watch video coverage and read more in Le Journal de Montréal

LCC rend visite à Fraser Milner Casgrain

Posted on May 24, 2012 by admin

Il y a une semaine, notre classe de droit a visité le bureau de FMC. Quand nous sommes arrivés, mon père, un avocat corporatif, nous a emmenés dans le bureau des conférences. Là-bas, il y avait deux autres avocats, un de litige et un corporatif. Les trois avocats nous ont présenté un cas dans lequel nous devions trouver une solution. Les deux parties étaient des voisins qui se chicanaient car un voulait construire une piscine, mais l’autre avait un garage trop grand qui empêchait sa construction. C’était une très bonne sortie qui nous a montré qu’il y avait plus d’une manière pour trouver une solution avec deux différents types d’avocats. Ça semblait être une situation facile, mais en l’étudiant, c’était très complexe. –Samantha Spector 13’

Les élèves du cours de droit de 10^e année sont allés visiter les bureaux de FMC. J’ai trouvé cette visite agréable, puisque j’ai pu voir le travail de divers avocats, et j’ai pu comprendre leurs rôles, tous très différents. J’ai bien aimé le fait que Me. Spector a essayé de nous faire vivre un peu sa vie en nous amenant dans la salle de conférences pour discuter d’un conflit qui pourrait vraiment se passer. Il nous a demandé de trouver des solutions, comme il le fait quotidiennement en tant qu’avocat. J’ai aussi beaucoup apprécié qu’il nous ait tous encouragés à participer à l’activité. Par contre, j’aurais aimé avoir plus de temps pour faire d’autres activités pour que je puisse utiliser ce que j’ai appris en classe en étudiant les différents enjeux (ex: celui avec le droit de passage, etc.). Bref, je suis contente que ce fut notre dernière sortie, car elle était très amusante! –Olivia Yip 13’

La semaine passée, notre classe de droit est allée visiter le bureau de Fraser Milner Casgrain à Montréal. C’est un bureau d’avocats législatifs et corporatifs. On a rencontré Chuck Spector, Anthony et Maria. Ils nous ont expliqué leur travail et ils nous ont fait faire une très bonne activité. Elle nous a appris qu’il y a toujours deux solutions à un problème, une législative et une corporative. J’ai apprécié cette sortie, on a beaucoup appris. –Alexa Dlouhy 13 ‘

Reading Renaissance?

Posted on May 24, 2012 by admin

There is a fair amount of speculation about the future of the book. So, is the book dying? Is reading on the decline? You’ll be pleased to know the answer to both questions is an emphatic “no!”

There is definitely a lot of shifting and change occurring in the book world, but the book is actually alive and well. In fact, it seems less about whether people are reading and more the question of format that is causing a stir. Recent data actually indicates that we seem to be living a kind of reading renaissance.

A few years ago there were many who predicted an impending apocalypse in the reading world, claiming the death of the traditional book bound on paper would lead to an inevitable decline in readership. However, the invention of the digital e-book has clearly changed the reading playing field – and it seems for the better. Regardless of format, we now have more books, more readers, and larger audiences for words and ideas whether presented to us on paper or pixels.

In its annual report published last august 2011, the Association of American Publishers reported that overall revenues and the number of books sold in all formats have grown significantly since 2008. However, without e-books the numbers would likely have been flat or declined slightly.

An American think-tank group that looks at current trends, called the Pew Research Centre, also reports an interesting development. Twenty percent (20%) of Americans report having read at least one digital book in the past year – and digital book consumers read more books per year (about 24) than the solely paper-bound readers. Another surprise: e-book readers also read a lot of paper books as they are comfortable in both formats.

It’s interesting to note that with the growth of digital books many authors are also making more money on Kindle, Kobo and iPad format sales than they did when we were limited to traditional publishing. E-books tend to be cheaper than traditional hardbacks as they are much less expensive to produce—and it seems readers are inclined to buy more given the savings. Think about it: e-books eliminate the pulping of paper, printing, binding, delivery trucks, stores with lots of sales employees and infrastructure costs.

But bound paper books still remain popular with people. A lot of people prefer the feel of a book, its smell and its portability. There’s permanence to the book that certainly has a special appeal to many.

So we should all realize that we are living through a time of profound change – probably equal to when Guttenberg invented the printing press in the mid-1400s. The good news is people appear to be reading more than ever before. –Chris Shannon, Headmaster